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1976 (click here for more)
Tony Schwartz
Dr. Verne Atwater
John Catsimatidis
Leonard de Paur
Francis Robinson
Alvin Ailey
1977 (click here for more)
Isaac Asimov
George Balanchine
Paul Goldberger
Clive Barnes
George Singer
1978
Beverly Sills
Lionel Hampton
Maureen O'Sullivan
Marc Connelly
Franz Beckenbauer
1979
Andy Warhol
LeRoy Neiman
Betty Friedan
Tom Wolfe
Geraldo Rivera
Rodney Dangerfield
Craig Claiborne
1980
Christopher Reeve
Tony Perkins
Roberta Flack
Morley Safer
Tony Randall
Buddy Rich
Ann Miller
Don Hewitt
Yip Harburg
Roger Grimsby
Michael O'Neal
1981
Jerry Stiller
Kenneth Taylor
Robert MacNeil
Leona Helmsley
Joshua Logan
1982
Liv Ullmann
Eli Wallach
Daniel Moynihan
Hugh Downs
Henny Youngman
1983 (click here for more)
Donald Trump
Rudolf Nureyev
Arthur Ashe
Regina Resnik
1984
Ted Sorensen
Sid Bernstein
Yvonne Ryding
Alvin Ailey
1985
David Halberstam
Andy Rooney
Danny Aiello
James Galway
Kitty Carlisle Hart
Samuel Ramey
1986
Rudolph Giuliani
George Burns
Edward Koch
Geena Davis
Sheldon Harnick
Jean-Pierre Rampal
1987
Alice Tully
Regis Philbin
Joyce Randolph
Steve Allen
David Dinkins
Willem Dafoe
Tim Zagat
1988
Howard Fast
James Fox
Louis Auchincloss
Robert MacNeil
Robert Caro
Sid Caesar
Werner Klemperer
1989
Bill Moyers
Tommy Hilfiger
Mortimer Zuckerman
Andrew Heiskell
1990
David Dunlap
Imogene Coca
George Goodman
Ray Errol Fox